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DISREPAIR ERROR_422: Chapter 5

Returning to the Pizzaplex during the day was a wildly different experience than leaving it at closing. The group had little else to do while they waited, having gone as close to the city as possible to explore, but wanted to remain out of sight and thus couldn’t go far. Because of that, and their lack of money in this world’s currency, they decided to wait the night out at a nearby park where Itara dozed off in X’s lap. By the time morning came, they were ready to get a move on and returned to the Pizzaplex as soon as it opened, beating the crowds but not by much. There were already a few cars in the parking lot from the get-go, but as soon as noon rolled around, the building filled up rapidly. The crowds rivaled those of a pre-apocalypse Solaris Festival.

Once they were inside the Pizzaplex, having to find some convenient tickets to get in, Itara suggested splitting ways to cover more ground after seeing the sheer size of just the atrium during the day. She opted to remain with X and cover the main stage area, while Zero headed for the upper levels, and Axl took the outer ring near the daycare and party rooms. Once she was comfortably up on X’s shoulders and the other two had taken off, they mapped out their trek and headed in.

“What are we on the lookout for, exactly?” X questioned, studying the many, many shops and food stands and activities within sight.

“I’m unsure. I’m not even sure how I got here to begin with, so I suppose just strange energy signatures or anything that may look… out of place.”

“Hard to tell what’s ‘out of place’ in a world I’m unfamiliar with.”

Itara hummed in agreement, “I suppose that’s a good point. Signatures, then. You’re familiar enough with my world by now, I think, if you find anything similar to my energy or even what the Phantom Ruby caused back in your world, that’s a good place to start.”

X nodded and the two continued on their way, scanning for anything strange or out of place in their own ways. Itara was on the hunt for chaos energy while X scanned the robots and animatronics for anything familiar, checking in with and updating the other two regularly. Unfortunately, the only thing any of them found were some blocked off rooms that didn’t appear on the map and the energy still emanating from the arcade in the daycare. The four decided to meet up back towards the main stage to compare notes and decide how to move forward.

With a heavy sigh, Itara dropped her head against X’s helmet and muttered, “I think the answer is that arcade cabinet, after all. I’m gonna have to get back in there and take a look at it but that daycare attendant isn’t going to let me in there so easily. I can fog in there no problem, but I may need someone to distract Sun so I have enough time to inspect it–” her head lifted to eye Zero sharply, “A NON-violent distraction. It’s a daycare. Full of actual babies. We are not blowing anything up.”

Zero clicked his tongue before scowling over, “I didn’t realize you were so concerned with the well-being of others, demon child.”

“Only in worlds I’m not looking to destroy,” she grinned back, but then frowned, looking away, “not that I’m looking to destroy worlds anymore or anything. That was multiple timelines ago. I’m over that. That was Mephiles. I am not Mephiles. ” She shook her head and looked up again, “the point is. I just need someone to keep him busy. X, do you think you can handle it?”

“I suppose… but how?”

“He thinks you're one of my guardians now, ask him about the daycare. How it works.”

“Shame one of your actual parents aren’t here to play concerned guardian,” Zero chided, getting yet another scowl from the hedgehog.

“If you end up back in my world with me again, I’m telling Metal you think he’s a concerned parent just to watch him short your entire system,” she hissed, Zero’s expression dropping to a challenging scowl at the threat.

“Alright, alright, you two,” X interrupted, sighing, “Zero, Axl, stay here. I’ll head to the Daycare and see what I can do.”

Itara stuck her tongue out at Zero before turning her attention back to X, “I just need a few minutes. Just keep him busy long enough for me to get to the arcade and inspect it and I’ll be right back out." X nodded and reached up to pull her from his shoulders, setting her back on the ground. “I’ll wait in the shadows until you have his attention,” she explained, heading for a nearby photobooth to disappear into.

X watched her a moment before turning to the other two and nodding, though before he could take off, Axl grabbed his attention. “Hey, what are we doing playing around with some kid when Sigma is out there causing problems?”

Zero grunted in annoyance but X turned back and explained, “If there’s one thing I learned through previous interactions with that child, it's that she usually knows more than she’s letting on. It’s a safe bet to follow her.”

“Debatable,” Zero grumbled.

“She got you home, didn’t she?”

“After several years of putting up with her world’s nonsense.”

“Better than not at all.”

Zero huffed and crossed his arms, looking away while X turned back to Axl, “Trust me, she knows what she’s doing. I’ll be back.” With that, he turned towards the daycare and headed through the halls to see about keeping the attendant busy. He wasn’t sure what to even ask or talk about, but it wouldn’t be the first time he’d had to improv while working with the mobian child. At least this time there was less chance of Zero rushing in and making a ruckus.

…Hopefully.

Itara shifted through the shadows, hovering in the dark corners near the daycare until she spotted X. She ensured he had Sun’s attention before fogging her way up into the ransacked room once more, wasting little time rematerializing and inspecting the arcade cabinet on all sides, though kept from touching it at first. The odd energy was still there and last time all she had to do was touch it and she was instantly brought to this world. It was possible the energy on the cabinet simply reacted to her own energies and activated a portal, meaning it could possibly do the same again. But being unable to control what happened was what concerned her. There was no telling where or when she could end up a second time.

The cabinet looked exactly the same as it had yesterday, broken and long since out of use. It wasn’t even plugged in. The screen was cracked and one of the buttons was missing. Looking around the backside, the computers didn’t look any better, there were claw marks going down the entire back, exposing several wires. Someone intentionally did a number on this cabinet… but why? Was it Sun? He didn’t seem so violent… and yet…

Looking around the rest of the room, she noted how absolutely wrecked the entire area was. Wallpaper was pulled off the wall, several stuffed toys were clawed open and strewn about, present boxes were shredded and tossed haphazardly around. There was even a broken staffbot in one corner, sitting lifeless with a long crack running across its face. She could see why Sun was so perturbed about her being in here yesterday but it didn’t explain why it was like this to begin with.

Unfortunately, as she turned her attention back to the arcade again, that tall, reaching shadow creeped out over the entrance again and a frustrated tone practically hissed out, “Why are you here again?”

Itara winced from the tone but looked up at the Sun animatronic with a sheepish smile. Darn it, X! “Oops, I’m caught,” she laughed, watching him walk up to her again, the set-in smile on his faceplate not feeling so friendly now.

“How did you get in here?”

“I have my ways.”

“You shouldn’t. Be in here.” He was clearly not happy and, if she had to guess, straining considerably to keep from snapping at her.

“Okay well, you see, here’s the thing,” Itara began, taking a step back when he took another. She couldn’t risk being dragged out again. There was no telling what was going on in her world or with Sigma. She didn’t have time to play coy right now. Sighing, she threw her hands up, the sheepish smile dropping to a more serious stare, “I don’t know if your programming can even process what I’m about to tell you or what effect it’ll have on your world but I don’t have time for this, either. I’m not from here. This world. I’m from another world entirely and I’m pretty sure that arcade cabinet brought me here somehow. I need to get back home and that game is relevant to that. So either tell me what’s going on with it or let me figure it out, myself. I'm not a mere child. I can destroy you if you get in my way. But I'd rather not. I'm quite fond of robots, after all."

Sun’s expression went blank, seeming to have no response to her explanation, so Itara nodded and turned back to the arcade. “If all goes well, I’ll be able to leave and we can both go back to what we need to. So if you’ll excuse me.” She watched him out of the corner of her eye, waiting for a response, but when she got none, she returned her attention to the game. Hesitating only briefly, she reached out and took hold of the controls. At first there was nothing, but then just like last time, a spark ran up from the machine and through her fingers, causing another blinding flash with the briefest sign of the swirling void she was familiar with. However, unlike last time, she wasn’t caught so off-guard and kept a hold of the controls to keep from falling. The world swirled and flashed around her as she heard the heavy thunk of metal beside her.

But when the clashing energies subsided, Itara looked around, confused. She was… still in the Pizzaplex room. Sun was lying face-first on the ground beside her, as though he’d shorted and shut down right there. She walked over and nudge him, but got no response. She didn’t have much time to worry about it, either, as a zAP-CRACKLE-Vrrrrrrr rang through the entire pizzaplex, followed by the lights going out and all outside noise stopping short.

Uh-oh.

So much for not having too much of an effect.

It wasn’t long before the kids below started screaming in terror and not long after that, X was calling out to her, followed soon enough by Zero and Axl bursting into the daycare. This wasn’t good. She walked out to the balcony to respond to X, looking for the glowing robotic eyes to figure out where they were, “I don’t know what happened! I’m fine but Sun looks like he shorted!”

With the doors to the daycare opened, she could hear the commotion coming from the confused guests of the pizzaplex but, oddly enough, none of the animatronics. Not even the wheels of a staffbot. The entire pizzaplex was pitch black aside from the customers pulling out phones to use as flashlights and trying to find their way around.

“What did you do, demon child?” Zero called up.

“I don’t know! I just touched the arcade and it felt like a portal opened but we’re still here. I’m gonna take a closer look.”

“Haven’t you broken enough?”

“No!” She could hear grumbling but only smirked and pulled up a small flame so she could see more easily and turned back towards the arcade. X was attempting to calm the screaming children around him while some of the parents who were out around the rest of the pizzaplex came back to retrieve their children. Zero yelled that he was going to go look for a breaker or something and Axl apparently decided to join him, rather than having to deal with all the crying around them. Itara didn’t really blame him but her interest was still in the arcade cabinet.

She walked around it a couple more times, looking it over without touching it this time, unsure what it would do next, and found some broken plastic sticks to use to poke at it, instead. But as she was inspecting, her ear perked and turned towards the daycare entrance again as another commotion rumbled to life. Or rather, stomped? Wait, she knew those footsteps.

Leaving the arcade, her brows furrowed as she headed for the balcony again, both ears perked to listen to the sound of heavy footsteps. Though, before she could even call out for the bot, she was swept up from the ground and into the arms of another that came up behind her with lightning speed. Glowing red, unamused eyes stared down at her as the loud footsteps slowed before storming into the daycare, calling for her.

“She’s up here, RK,” Metal sighed, jumping down from the balcony and over to the frazzled warbot.

“Itara! Where did you go?!”

“Metal? RK? How did you guys get here? Did you get dragged in too? Where have you been?”

“Where have we been? Where have you been?” Metal growled, “One second we’re at the pizza place, next you’re just gone, now you just show back up again with an entire building!”

Itara’s eyebrows furrowed in confusion, “Wait… are we… back home?”

“Of course we are, where else would we be?”

Itara blinked, only more confused, as X walked up and greeted the two new additions. “Hello RK, Metal Sonic. It seems we’ve been doing a bit more traveling than any of us meant to recently.”

“You again?” Metal questioned, “How did you get here?”

“We were following Sigma, ended up here at this pizzaplex and ran into Itara, we were looking for a way back when everything seemed to shut down and now you’re here. It sounds like we’re back in your world again, though?”

“We weren’t a minute ago,” Itara explained, “We were in a different world entirely, that’s where I disappeared to. Are you telling me the entire pizzaplex just showed up in our world?”

RK nodded, “you disappeared two days ago for us.” Why could time never match between the worlds?

“We picked up a strange reading from where the pizza shop was and came to check it out, there was this massive building where the old shop was and here you are,” Metal held the tiny child out at arm’s length, staring her down with complete and utter disinterest in her shenanigans, “If you don’t stop just vanishing on us, RK’s gonna start putting a leash on you.”

Itara couldn’t help but give a small, concerned laugh at the idea. She didn’t put it past him at this point. Metal shook his head and handed her to RK, who promptly put her up on his shoulders where she cozied in and got comfy. “Listen, I told you guys that arcade was weird. If we’re back home though, we should go back to the base. Though, I guess that means all these humans are stuck in our world now. That could be a problem.”

“Yeah, their problem,” Metal shrugged, leading the way out to the hallway, the other two following after.

“The kids, though…,” X trailed off, glancing over his shoulder. “Some of them had their parents come pick them up, but I don’t think all of their parents were in the pizzaplex. This is a daycare, after all.”

“I still don’t see how that’s our problem.”

Itara sighed, “I can contact Sonic’s group and inform them. They can take care of the stranded humans, if it’ll make you feel better.” Metal scoffed but X agreed that would be best and offered to remain nearby until someone else came. “If that’s what you want. Zero knows where our base is, meet us there.”

“That hot-head is here, too?” Metal growled.

“That’s rich coming from you , Sparky,” Itara smirked, pulling her phone out to see that she did, indeed, have reception again and dialed Tails’ number. Sonic never answered anything and uttering Knuckles’ name in RK’s presence was banned. After a moment, the fox picked up, sounding wary about hearing from her at all, “Hello Tails.”

“Hello… Itara. What do you need? It’s rare to hear from you directly.”

“Urgent situation. A location’s shown up outside Soleanna with several humans trapped within. We have no interest in dealing with them, it seemed like a Hero Concern.”

“What do you mean a ‘location has shown up’?”

“A Pizzaplex. Everyone inside doesn’t belong in this world. X will be waiting for assistance dealing with them.”

“X?! What happened now?!”

“Don’t know yet. I’m looking into it. Inform Sonic there’s an entire daycare full of parentless children, would you?” She listened to Tails’ confused panic for a moment before hanging up, grinning slightly at still being able to put their fur on end once in a while but her glee was soon brought right back down with Zero’s appearance from around the corner. “I thought you were doing something useful? The lights aren’t on.”

Zero scowled in return, “Maybe I should do something useful and destroy you, since you seem to bring nothing but destruction anywhere you go.”

“Try it,” Metal snapped, his hand sparking with violent blue electricity, immediately challenging the other bot with zero hesitation.

“Ah. There’s the parents. I should have known you wouldn’t be far. As amusing as destroying all of you would be, I have bigger concerns. As for the lights, they’re all down. Everything in the building is. The robots, doors, elevators, anything powered by electricity is down. Whatever you did, it shorted the entire system.”

Itara huffed but waved Metal down, for now . “X is staying with the kids until help arrives. Meet us at our base once he’s satisfied. You know where it is. We’ll start looking into what happened to hopefully get you out of my fur sooner rather than later.” With that, the three continued towards the exit, leaving the maverick hunters to do as they pleased in the meantime. On the way out, and once they were out of earshot of Zero and Axl, Itara sighed and leaned into RK a bit more, “By the way, has anything else happened since I disappeared?”

“A surge of energy appeared briefly on our radar, but it disappeared again before we could pinpoint where it came from. I was trying to find it again to see if it was maybe from you when this building showed up. Why?”

“X and Zero were chasing Sigma through portals when they ended up where I was. He wasn't there with us so there’s no telling where he is. I’m hoping he didn’t end up here somehow, like Zero did that one time.”

“When we get back to the base, I can pull up the reading and see if we can maybe look into it further.”

Itara nodded and melted further against RK, deciding to take the run back to just think about everything that happened and how it might all be connected. If it was connected. It could very well all just be a really odd coincidence, but things rarely were when multiple dimensions were involved. It seemed like there’d be a little time-traveling to do here soon.

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DISREPAIR ERROR_422: Chapter 4

It had been hours .

She’d tried escaping through the slide, only to be dragged back and scolded. Tried getting into the upper room again, to once again get scolded. Tried sneaking out when other parents came to pick their kids up but got nowhere before Sun swiped her right up with far too much experience keeping track of small, slippery toddlers. Even tried leaving via the shadows but, just as she theorized, all it took was a staffbot spotting her and Sun was on her tail before she could even leave the hallway. She had no idea how he was doing it, but he was somehow faster than even RK. Of course, her ability to just sludge out into the shadows perplexed him quite a bit, but he scolded her nonetheless.

Outside of leaving the pizzaplex entirely, she finally just accepted she was doomed to remain in the daycare until it either closed or she was, by some miracle, rescued. Especially now since she was the only one left and therefore all of Sun’s attention was squarely on her. They both sat near the window she’d taken up at, him studying her carefully while she stared out the window hoping to spot a wild RK or Metal wandering by somehow. Though she was sure, if they had been dragged into this world with her, they would have ended up in the same spot, not somewhere else. But there was a chance they ended up elsewhere, maybe nearby, considering she had no control over the travel. It wasn’t difficult to get separated, after all.

“The daycare will be closing soon…” Sun reminded her, bringing her attention back to the robot. There was a strain behind those words. Was he concerned about her being abandoned maybe?

“What happens if they don’t show up by then?” She was sure they wouldn’t at this point.

Sun’s built-in wide grin slipped at the question but after a moment of debate, he perked back up, “Well, I suppose we’ll just have to have a sleepover then! A… lights on sleepover.”

She sighed and looked out the window again, silently begging RK or Metal or someone to show up already. She didn’t want to be stuck here forever and Sun refused to let her leave. If this went on too long, she would just leave the pizzaplex and take her chances outside, but she would give it until the closing. A warning came on the overhead soon, telling parents the pizzaplex would be closing in thirty minutes and to collect their stuff and that the final Goodbye Meet-Up for the performers would be happening near the exit.

“What if I wanted to go see the performers?”

“Then I certainly hope your parents come soon so you don’t miss them!”

He was relentless! Just let someone, anyone come soon! She’d even take- no, maybe not Kipper. Not only would he likely just abandon her here because it’d be funny but he’s just a doll. There was no way this overbearing daycare attendant would let her leave with just a doll . Come on, RK. Metal. Infinite. Lynda. ANYONE?!

And then it happened, the answer to her pleas. A familiar looking warp portal pulsed to life just beyond the window. Itara shot up, eyes wide, brimming with relief at the sight of the swirling vortex, jumping to her feet and catching the attention of the daycare attendant beside her as it finally stabilized. Just as she was about to book it for the door and tell Sun someone was here to pick her up, her entire stance dropped as soon as the figures stepped through and she realized the giant chunk of red robot was, in fact, not RK . Entirely by reflex, alone, as soon as the robots started looking around and happened to look towards the window she was at, she dropped down below it, reaching back to cover her spines so they wouldn’t stick up.

“What are you doing, silly?” Sun questioned, but Itara didn’t feel like answering as she debated the situation. But she wouldn’t have long as the towering, heavy wooden doors swung open with a heavy BANG, Sun jolted to attention, and ‘YOU AGAIN?!’ boomed out through the daycare.

Itara winced at the heavy, thudding footsteps but dropped her arms and rolled her head to the side in exasperation.

Then again…

“Excuse you! That’s no way to make an entrance!” Sun scolded them behind her, “unless you’re here to pick up your kids, I’m afraid this is a no-adults area.”

“What-?”

“THEY ARE!” Itara bounced to life and scrambled between Sun and the other robots, avoiding looking at one in particular, “Th-they’re… my… uncles! Ah haha, probably here to pick me up since dad was busy with… work. Very busy. Time just gets away from him all the time.” She could feel the scowl on the back of her head but was more amused with her own joke to pay attention to it.

“Uncles,” Sun repeated, eyeing her.

“Itara, what’s-”

Itara whipped around, giving a quick shushing motion to the tall blue robot, still ignoring the red one, “Isn’t that right, Uncle? You’re here to pick me up? So we can leave ?” She hoped he, at least, might play along long enough for her to explain outside . Unfortunately, as soon as he seemed to be catching on, the one she was intentionally ignoring grabbed her by the back of the shirt and pulled her face to face with him.

“What are you playing at this time?”

Her eyes darted back towards Sun before returning to him, explaining in a hushed tone through grit teeth, “I will explain once I’m out of here, but I can’t do that here and he won’t let me leave without a guardian. Play along. Or let X do the talking.”

Icy blue eyes narrowed dangerously but the furious robot finally set her back down and crossed his arms. She was hoping that meant he’d just let X handle the situation. She turned back to the blue bot and he gave a small nod before turning to the waiting, unamused Sun animatronic who likely heard every word they said, anyway. “Yes. We’re here to pick her up and get her back home.”

“Uh-huh.” Itara knew he didn’t buy it for a second, but with a glance towards the lights and out towards the emptying pizzaplex, Sun seemed to debate for a few minutes before finally sighing and waving them towards the door, “Well. I have no customer profile for you to prove otherwise, I suppose I’ll just have to take your word for it. But please, next time you get dropped off, be it by your parents or uncles , come through the front door. Anyway, best hurry, the pizzaplex is closing soon!”

“Right. Of course.” Itara nodded and turned back towards X, giving him a wry smile that he picked up on relatively quickly and crouched down to pull her on his back. “Bye, Mr. Sun!”

“Goodbye, Itara . Have a Fazzerific Day! ”

Oops. He caught that.

Oh well. Once she was settled on his back, X led the way back out of the Daycare but looked back to Itara for directions on where to go from there. She could only shrug and, once the doors were shut and they were alone, let out a heavy sigh and dropped against the back of his helmet. “You were not who I was expecting but I’m glad to see… well, you at least, X. Not so much you, Zero . And who’s your friend?”

Zero scowled at her while X gave a short laugh and turned to face the other robot with dark blue and red lined armor. He had spiky orange hair and there was a certain aura of braggart around him that Itara wasn’t particularly fond of right off the bat. “It’s… good to see you too, Itara. Unexpected as it was. This is one of our newer Maverick Hunters, Axl. Axl, this is Itara. She’s a friend from another world.” X looked around and back towards the Daycare, “a world that looks a lot different than it did last time. Where are your actual guardians ?”

“This isn’t my world,” she sighed, “RK, Metal, and I were at a much smaller pizza shop back home when I got thrown here by an arcade machine. I don’t know how and I don’t know what world this is, or if the others got pulled in as well, which is why I didn’t want to say anything in front of Sun. All I know is this isn’t a timeline in my own world because my body is still physical.”

“Wait a minute, that’s right, you’re you again?”

“Oh,” there was a moment of awkward silence as Itara realized what he was asking, “Yeah. That’s right, you guys wouldn’t know. The other Guardians gave me a body back, my own this time, not a stolen one. But they put a limit on my powers if I go outside of my current timeline so I can’t mess with things anymore.”

“Good,” Zero snapped, “now explain why we’re here ? Have you seen Sigma come through?”

“Sigma? He’s back already?”

“Unfortunately. We were chasing him down and he entered a portal, so we followed after. It led here,” X explained, deciding to lead the way around the outer halls to try and find the exit. “I’m going to assume he didn’t come through here.”

“Not that I’ve seen, no, and I imagine if Sigma came through I’d likely have noticed. Trapped, as I was. But it’s odd he’s back already. How many years have passed since I left?”

“Four since we returned after the battle with Solaris.”

“That’s not nearly enough time. I sent him much further than that. Something’s going on.”

“And of course you and your world are at the center of our problems again,” Zero glared, moving just ahead enough to make sure his point was hammered home to her.

“Hey, nothing was going on in my world until the arcade cabinet thing! Maybe it’s this world causing problems now! Things aren’t exactly stable in my world but with everything that happened I don’t think they ever fully will be again.”

“So anything still connected to your world is in just as much danger, then.”

“Well… that’s possible, yeah.”

There was silence between the four as the low hum of the Daycare’s lights went out behind them. Itara glanced back, spotting movement just behind the glass but it disappeared quickly. A final announcement came over the loudspeaker about the Pizzaplex closing with some generic ‘see you next time’ message. Once the four left the hallways from the Daycare, what looked to be the main area opened up in front of them and the exit was finally within sight.

“This place is HUGE!” Itara yelped, looking up around the massive opening. Neon lights, dozens of more shops, brightly colored patterns everywhere, with a huge stage all the way at the back with towering projections of four animal animatronics, one of which she recognized as the chicken from earlier. The bear looked to be the leader of the… band? With the white chicken, a wolf, and a gator. “You could fit the entire Soleanna Festival in here! And these robots are so advanced for… anima… tronics….” A vague memory tipped around the edge of her mind. A bear. A chicken. Nothing solid but there was something. As they made their way towards the exit, passing what looked to be a photo op area, standouts of the main performers were set up near separate rooms decorated around each of them. But on the other side of the hallway were more cutouts. More characters.

With a fox.

A pirate fox .

Itara shot up and pulled at X’s helmet a bit to grab his attention, ignoring his frustration to stare at the pirate fox cutout across from them. She recognized that fox. Looking around the area for another confirmation, she realized it had been staring at her the entire time. Fazbear Entertainment. Freddy Fazbear. She knew this world.

“You know something,” Zero caught on. Figured. She looked back towards the robots waiting for an explanation.

“I know this place. I’ve been here before. Not… here but… ‘here’,” she explained with a wave of her hand, “A long time ago. It looked different. They looked different. But that pirate fox, I know him. I…” a guilty smile suddenly spread across her face as she shrunk back and scratched her cheek and looked away from the scowl, “may have… brought him home… once. He was all broken! I just wanted to fix him! I brought him right back! …With… parts from my world.”

“WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS INVOLVED?!”

“IT WAS BEFORE EVERYTHING WITH SOLARIS! I didn’t think it’d create a connection like this! How could I have possibly known my entire world would collapse and start merging a bunch of lines I didn't even know about?!”

“Aren’t you a time traveler?!”

“Well. Yes , but… there were no signs of this world before now. I’m still convinced the initial interference came from here. Like how the explosion sent you to my world the first time. Something brought that arcade there.”

Zero looked ready to strangle her again but X intervened and attempted to calm the other bot down before he acted on the frustration. The third bot just watched the entire conversation with bewilderment, especially Zero’s outburst. If Itara had to guess, knowing what she did about Zero, this was probably the most the ever-edgy bot had said in his experience. She would have laughed if she didn’t know for a fact it would set him off again and she didn’t want to get throttled.

“Look, we can worry about the how later. Let’s just get out of here before it closes, alright?” X sighed, taking the lead to the exit once more, “If Itara’s been here before, it at least gives us some idea of where we’ve ended up. It’s not completely random and it means there’s some connection.”

Itara nodded in agreement, but said nothing for fear of Zero, but as they finally walked through the front doors of the pizzaplex, just barely making it a few steps outside before the rumbling clank of a shutter dropped behind them. They glanced back at the now metal cover behind the door before heading out into the dark, quiet night. There was a roundabout drop-off directly in front of the door, with a road leading out to a parking lot and a guard post at the end. There didn’t seem to be anyone at the guard post and the only car in the parking lot looked long since abandoned.

“Though it does beg the question of where we go now,” Itara frowned, looking around the treeline bordering the pizzaplex. The road directly in front of them was quiet but she could hear the distant sound of a freeway not far off and the glow of a city just over the far hill. “When I came here before, I only explored the old pizzeria, I never went outside. I have no idea what this world is like but while I was in the daycare, other than the animatronics, I only saw humans. All of the guests were human, no other robots and certainly no mobians. I think it best we keep a low profile. Unless you guys want to remove some armor, we’re not passing for humans here.”

“Never,” Zero snapped.

“Not even I’ve ever seen Zero without his helmet,” X commented, though reached up to pull his own off, revealing the mess of fluffy brown hair below, tucking the helmet under his arm.

“Nor will you.”

“At the very least, I don’t think there’s much universe-shattering danger in this world. When I visited before there were a lot of energies similar to Kipper, it's what drew me here in the first place, I was looking for Kipper’s origin. I never found it, though.”

“Your fox doll?” X questioned, glancing up at her.

“Yeah. He’s a ghost attached to a doll body, I was trying to find out who he was before that but I never found anything. All my searches ended up sidelined somehow. So all I know about this world is that it's heavily infested with ghosts, but that’s about it.” After a moment of thought, she added, “There are definitely still ghosts here. But that’s still all I sense as far as energies and powers go. Maybe you guys can pick up more in terms of the technology though?”

“I’ll see what I can find out,” X nodded.

Itara nodded back, turning towards the new bot while they waited. He looked confused but ever ready for a fight, should one start. Once he realized she was watching him, his eyes narrowed briefly, studying her, before asking, “So what’s your deal then? You sound pretty familiar with Sigma.”

“Not really. I had a run-in with him while I was in your world, accidentally sent him off in time when I was trying to get a crystal from him, but other than that I only know what X and Zero have told me. Or rather, what X told me. Zero doesn’t really explain much. You guys were chasing him through a portal when you ended up here?”

“Yeah, I thought we were right behind him…”

“We were,” Zero corrected, “I have no doubt in my mind you obstructed our path somehow. Which means he’s off wreaking havoc who knows where and we’re here.”

“I really hope he didn’t end up in my world, then,” Itara frowned, “then again, I’m sure RK and Metal could handle that hunk-a-junk just fine if he did. So long as he stays away from Robotnik.”

“Yes, because your overbearing parents are so calm and collected whenever you pop off to another world without them.”

Itara’s face flushed up at the insinuation before scowling back at the unamused bot. Not that she could really argue, either. Then again, they should probably just be used to this by now. It’s happened… often. Of course, every time she returns from ‘popping off to another world’, she’s not usually in great shape, as RK regularly liked to bring up. But if Sigma appeared in their world looking for a fight, not only would he have to face Sonic, but Metal was always looking for a reason to fight, as well. She doubted he could be so easily distracted from fighting someone like Sigma, and RK would see it as an opportunity to blow off some steam, if nothing else.

They’d be fine.

Their world would be perfectly fine.

After several minutes and an uncomfortably elongated silence, X finally shook his head and seemed to pop back to attention. He reached up to rub his head before looking around at the others and explained, “It took a minute, but I was able to connect to something here. I was just trying to find an internet connection but I think I got into the pizzaplex database. It’s a mess. But from what I can tell, most of it is run by the robots. There’s only one human currently employed in the entire location and it's a night security guard. Everything else is customer profiles, show schedules, and maintenance procedures. Nothing particularly useful in our situation.”

“Hm. Alright.” Itara glanced back towards the shuttered building, “Maybe we should come back when it opens tomorrow and see what we can find outside the Daycare. Though I have a feeling we’re going to need to get back to that arcade cabinet eventually.”

“Seems so.”

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DISREPAIR ERROR_422: Chapter 3

It had been a couple weeks since RK first brought the rest of the house down to the pizza shop for that first ‘early dinner’. Metal had little interest in ever going back, likely because there was no arcade games for him to play, but Itara had ‘casually’ mentioned it more than once since. Despite insisting she had no interest in going back. RK knew better, of course, and started planning another trip out there, but this time inviting the other kids along with them. He’d heard the pizza shop had grown a bit since they went already, being popular enough to add an extra seating area, a couple extra pizza flavors, and even a better soda machine. Things were progressing around the world and with how few shops or restaurants there were, in general, whenever there were improvements or advancements, usually due to Sonic and Robotnik’s shenanigans, the few that did exist were quick to hop onboard.

Getting the others together for a trip was far less tedious than he imagined. Considering how busy life was before the event, it still caught him off-guard how little happened nowadays. Sonic and friends were busy as always, but everyone outside of their group had little interest in the busy lives they once led. Once people were able to rebuild shelters and food and shops, they seemed satisfied with just living life without much hub-bub. But it meant Itara’s friends and their remaining parents had plenty of time to visit the pizza shop when he started asking. The only one who seemed reluctant was Itara’s namesake, who decided to sit out, preferring to stay home and work on whatever it was with her father. RK didn’t push the subject, knowing how Itara felt about the other girl. He figured she would appreciate the day out with her original friend group without the girl who regularly gave her an existential crisis.

When the day came to head out, RK and Linda gathered the rest of the kids who wanted to come along, RK having to drag Metal once again, knowing he needed to get out of the house and do something other than sit and mope. What originally wasn’t that long of a run out to the pizza shop with the three of them ended up taking over twice as long with all six of them. Camilla had decided to stay back with the other hedgehog girl, as well, but Sceira convinced her dad to let her go by the time they ultimately left. When they finally reached the pizza shop, Metal was ready to leave and RK wanted nothing more than to escape Lynda’s ever-frustrating presence.

But with the pizza place’s new neon signs in view, the kids took off running, except Itara of course, and RK sighed in relief. The shop wasn’t as empty as before but it wasn’t packed, either. There were two other families and while that would have been a tight fit for the little shop the last time they were there, with the additional wing, it was just enough space that all three groups were able to sit comfortably and enjoy their space. But it wasn’t the extra space that caught their attention first… it was the new arcade game against the back wall. The two children of the families that were already there were mid-game, yelling excitedly about the characters on screen, and RK caught Metal’s eye immediately drift to the cabinet as soon as they entered.

Not that he was the only one. Simon pulled Sceira over to join the other kids, yelling back to Itara to join them when she was a moment slower. RK looked down to the hesitant hedgehog when he realized she hadn’t moved since they entered and studied the perplexed look on her face.

“What is it?”

Her face only scrunched further, studying the arcade her friends were now gathered around before shaking her head, “there’s something strange about that game. I can’t be sure what it is… when you order the pizza, can you ask where they found it?”

“Sure thing. What kind did you guys want?”

“I want pineapple.”

“And the others?” Itara looked up at him with a flat smile causing the robot’s expression to drop. “Itara.”

“Look, if they wanted something else they should GET OVER HERE AND DECIDE!” she yelled over to the distracted kids, getting their attention back. Though the quiet scoff from Metal gave her a chuckle.

“Why don’t we just get a half and half with pineapple and cheese?” Lynda suggested, getting a nod from RK as he turned towards the counter to order the pizza and ask about the arcade.

“Itara, come play with us. It’s been forever since we’ve been able to game!” Simon begged, grabbing her hands and pulling her towards the cabinet with Sceira still in-tow.

“I don’t know, Simon… there’s something about it…”

“What do you mean? It’s just a game.”

Itara frowned, looking up at the ancient piece of tech that looked barely held together. It didn’t look newly built like most tech lately. She had to wonder how something so easily destroyed managed to survive the destruction of the entire world, it looked like a light bump to the wrong side would send it crumbling to pieces. Yet it held up to the aggressive play of the other kids. But it wasn’t the instability of the physical object she was concerned with, it was the aura coming off the thing. The others didn’t notice it, which only concerned her further because it meant whatever it was, it was something only someone like her could see. That never meant anything good.

While Simon explained the buttons and mechanics to Sceira to get her to play with him, RK walked over, explaining the pizza would be ready in about 10 minutes. Itara looked up to see about the arcade’s origin.

“So?”

“Supposedly it was left out back, they don’t know by who. It was just there when they opened up the other morning. It wasn’t working at first but they managed to fix it up and get it turned on.”

“Yeah that’s not suspicious at all,” Itara scoffed, turning back to study the game. “Balloon World. What weird character designs.” Her attention was drawn to the stylized sun in the corner of the banner image, “That looks nothing like Solaris… where did they even come up with this?”

“I don’t know. I’ve never heard of ‘Fazbear Entertainment’, either. They never came up in my searches for games.”

“Mine, neither,” Metal stated, walking up behind them, “and I was active far longer than you, RK. I don’t recognize anything about this game.”

“You would be an expert in games now, wouldn’t you?”

The comment got a scowl from Metal but a chuckle from Itara before the three of them turned back to the arcade cabinet. Itara’s face twisting again, “You guys don’t sense anything coming off it, do you?” With the echoed ‘no’, she sighed and shook her head, “I don’t know if that concerns me more or less.”

“Come on, Itara! We’ve only got so much time to play, quit being paranoid,” Simon whined back at them.

“I have good reason to be paranoid, you should know,” Itara hissed. But what harm could an arcade game possibly cause? At least playing it should be fine, so long as she kept her powers under control around it. Huffing in frustration, she walked up to the arcade with the others only to realize she was, as usual, far too short to reach the controls and looked back at RK with a pout. She chose to ignore the smirk on both his and Metal’s faces as they both moved forward, Metal pushing the other kids aside to take the other control while RK picked her up to help her reach.

“Who said I wanted to play with–”

ZZAP!

A flash of burning white light, a powerful shock that ran through her entire body, and a face that disappeared as quickly as it appeared that sent her scrambling back and away from the arcade the second she touched the controls. She thudded back and to the ground with a yelp, RK’s support suddenly disappearing, as she snapped her eyes shut, startled by the light and face. The sting of the shock ran all through the right side of her body where the molten white scars still trailed. Taking a moment to recover from the suddenness of it all, she reached up and rubbed her head, whining and about to yell at Metal for shocking her. Before she could, however, there was another voice, one she didn’t immediately recognize.

“Sunshine, what have I told you about-... Oh dear, what is this? How did an animal get in here?”

Itara blinked her eyes open but could only stare in confusion at what she found when she did. She wasn’t in the pizza shop anymore. The room was dark, littered with random bits of robot and torn decorations… but the arcade game was still there, though its screen had gone dark and it looked somehow more broken than it’d been. Itara’s brows furrowed as she looked around, finally spotting the towering being that had made its way over, the only source of light coming from the opening behind it, its shadow stretching far across the dark room. She could hear the shouts of children playing coming from the opening, though it sounded far below them and muffled.

The figure walked up to where she sat, towering far above her, far more than RK or Metal or even Simon and Lynda. It took her eyes only a moment to adjust to the darkness of the room, but once they did, a tall, lanky, jester-like robot with a sun-shaped face and faded white eyes stared down at her. Its arms were on its hips, studying her as she studied it.

Where did she end up this time? And how?!

Sighing in frustration, she finally stood up, which seemed to take the robot by surprise. “What a strange animal you are… how did you get in here? This is most unsanitary.” Its voice was high, chipper, but there was a strain underneath.

“Excuse you, I am not unsanitary,” Itara huffed once again, watching shock and confusion come across the robot’s body language. Not so much its face. That remained steeled in place.

“You talk!”

“I do. As for how I got here,” she glanced back at the arcade before craning her neck back to try and meet the face of the robot. It reminded her of the general from Zero’s world. Too tall. There were no desks to sit on here. But how did she explain her appearance? She had no idea where she ended up and she didn’t want to chance anything. Especially considering her body was still physical, meaning she wasn’t just in a different point of time. The most logical conclusion was another world… again. Somehow. She reached out for her powers, watching a subtle shift in her shadow before waving it away, not wanting it to be noticed. They were still there, though distant. What happened? How did she explain this? How sentient was this robot, exactly?

“I… got lost?” she tested, looking back up at the robot, studying its reaction.

The robot watched her and she thought she saw the slightest shift in its face before it bounced back to life, “Oh goodness, that’s no good! I’m not sure where you came from or… what you are, for that matter… but children shouldn’t be back here! Come now, we’ll bring you down with the others and see if we can’t get a hold of your parents!” It reached a long, metal arm out to her, causing her to mentally sigh but walk towards it.

Back to this, huh?

The giant sun robot picked her up with ease and carried her out to what she could now see was some kind of balcony over a rather large play area. There were several young children running around the large plastic jungle gym, yelling and playing, while others sat at various multi-colored tables around the open area next to a long, winding ball pit river that wrapped around the entire area. All the children she could see were toddler-age, no one above the age of five at most. All human, as far as she could see. No other robots and no mobians.

The sun robot jumped back down to the play area, which was several feet below them, though it somehow managed to land softly enough to hardly even jostle her. Once they were on the ground, it crouched to set her down, looking over her and what she easily recognized as scanning her. “How odd, I have no profile for you! What’s your name, little one? Do you know where your parents are? You’re a strange one, but you’re no robot, either.”

Itara looked around, taking in the obvious daycare and noting that the area was fully enclosed in high walls and thick glass with a seating area outside and a few shops. Maybe a mall of some kind? Once the sun robot started talking to her again, she looked back at it and tilted her head, debating how to answer. It was wary about her appearance but accepted that she was just a lost child. Perhaps she could stick to that narrative. That always worked best for her. But would it let her leave without finding her ‘parents’? She checked her pockets for her phone and found it, but of course there was no service. But did RK or Metal even get dragged here with her? She doubted it. Sighing, she looked back up and shrugged, “I don’t know where my parents are. As for my name it’s… Mara.” She decided it was best not to give her real name until she was certain where she was. So the nickname it was.

“Mara, alright, I’ll log that in a new customer profile for you! Can you tell me your parents’ names, then? Do you have any allergies or medications?”

Customer profile? Itara debated for a moment before explaining, “my… dad’s name is… RK. And Sparky. Um, Sparky is my other dad’s nickname.” Once she got this robot off her back, she’d have to see if she could access this world’s timeline to find out if this was the best answer to give. She’d go with this for now.

“Sparky, what a fun name,” the robot noted, taking a moment to likely input the information on some sort of digital database.

“What’s your name?”

“Oh goodness how rude of me not to introduce myself! You can call me Sun! Or Mr. Sun, as some of the kids here call me, whichever you’d like. It’s so nice to meet you, Mara! I’m sure we’ll find your parents soon but we can have fun here in the meantime!”

Sun. A Sun robot… now that she was thinking about it, he looked exactly like the drawing on that arcade banner. She knew she shouldn’t have touched that stupid thing. Was this the catalyst to whatever was going to happen around that pizza shop then? Meaning she was more directly involved with it than she’d hoped. But where was this and how did that arcade get to her world in the first place?

Mentally groaning, she looked up and gave the robot a forced smile and nodded to his greetings. “Maybe it’s best I go search for them, myself. I’m sure they’re around here somewhere.”

“Goodness no, we can’t have little ones running around the pizzaplex all on their own! Don’t worry! I’ve put a message in the database, as soon as your parents are found they’ll be directed right here to you! We here at Fazbear Entertainment have the highest order of safety protocols for missing children!”

Itara’s eyebrows narrowed at the spiel. A pizzaplex? What in the world was a pizza ‘plex’? How big was this place, exactly? “Are you the only robot here?”

Sun watched her strangely before laughing quietly, “You really must be lost.” What did that mean? “Of course not, silly goose. The Pizzaplex is filled with the highest grade robotics the world over! Our state of the art entertainers and animatronics take care of everything from shows to maintenance to cleaning staff!”

Animatronics. So the robots here were simply animatronic entertainers and maintenance. And Metal thought he had it bad. But now she was curious just how ‘state of the art’ these robots really were. How was their AI compared to RK or Metal? “Oh, that’s really cool. You know, I really like the sun, actually.”

“Is that so?!”

Sort of. She nodded, “Mhm,” she raised the hand that still had the white cracks from her fight with Infinite, “so much so, I permanently embedded some of him in me.” How would he respond to that kind of insinuation?

Sun stared, confusion threatening his steel face as the rays around the edge of his head pulled in slightly. The rays spun before spreading out again, “Well, isn’t that interesting. Is this a medical issue I should add to your profile?”

“No, it doesn’t affect me… anymore.”

“Forgive me for asking, but what are you? You’re no normal human, are you?”

“I’m not.”

“You look like a small animatronic but you have normal life readings.”

“Well, normally I’d say I’m just a really advanced robot but since you can apparently tell I’m not, I’m not sure how to explain what I am. Let’s just go with animal, like you said before. A hedgehog.”

“I’ve never heard of actual animals that could speak.”

Itara only smiled in response, wrapping her hands behind her back and leaning back on her heels. She would say no more on the subject and luckily Sun picked up on that relatively quickly. “Alright, well, talking animal or human, why don’t you have fun with the others while we wait for your parents, alright?”

“Are you certain I can’t leave to look for them, myself?”

Sun smiled back in response, the most shift she’d seen in his face yet. So he had some sass. Alright. She was all-too-well acquainted with sassy robots. With the understanding between them, he stood back up to his full height and left to check in on the other children, jumping in to make sure one of them didn’t eat the glitter glue they’d suddenly gotten into. Itara watched from where he’d set her down for a moment before sighing and turning towards the large windows leading out to the rest of the pizzaplex. How much could she see from here? She decided to take a walk around the perimeter, finally realizing just how massive the place was as the eating area just outside stretched all around the daycare and then further up to a second floor with yet more shops and what she thought were several individual party rooms.

There were families with kids of all ages and groups of teens wandering around and multiple much smaller robots with mops, tickets, maps, and brooms weaving in and out of the crowds with relative ease. She decided to take up a seat at a window near the massive wooden doors leading out of the daycare and watch the crowds and spotted a much larger group of kids gathered around one of the party rooms. One of the smaller bots rolled up and unlocked the door, letting the kids with their presents and drinks and handfuls of tickets file in. A birthday party, she guessed. The one with the big tiara and much fancier dress that strolled in after everyone else was probably the birthday girl, then. She couldn’t hear anything past the thick walls and glass of the daycare, but she could only imagine how noisy it actually was out there.

She could only see the party through the window now but before long, another robot came around the corner, carrying several large pizzas. Unlike the smaller bots or even Sun, this one was more fluid and shiny and looked like a white chicken with a chassis styled like a pink leotard, wristbands, and wildly patterned leg warmers. The chicken animatronic practically bounced its way to the party room, a smaller bot opening the door to it, before disappearing into the crowd of waiting children, once again out of Itara’s view. Robot entertainers. Itara was tempted to at least peek in on the party. Then again, when she tried crawling up the slide in the ball pit that led to a viewing platform above the daycare during her walk around the perimeter, figuring Sun was busy taking care of the actual children and wouldn’t notice her disappearance, she barely made it halfway before the jester robot snatched her right back down and scolded her for doing something so dangerous.

He had no idea what ‘danger’ truly was. But she had no doubt in her mind already that even if she managed to slip out of the daycare, he’d somehow drag her right back. Then again, if every staff member in this pizzaplex was, in fact, a robot on the same database, all it’d take would be one of the others seeing her and the daycare attendant would know. She could leave the building altogether, but not knowing what was outside of it was also a concern. Sun took to her appearance relatively well, but if there were no mobians in this world and no animal robots like in Zero’s, she could be in trouble if she were spotted.

But then what was the plan after she left the daycare, anyway? It was the arcade cabinet in Sun’s room that was somehow connected to her world; she would probably need to stay near it to find a way back. Though, judging from his reaction from when she appeared in there and the state of the room, somehow she didn’t think he liked anyone being in there. There was something strange about that robot.

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Oh look. Chapter 5.

ignore the fact that I forgot to post chapter 3 and 4 over here, oops. I'll try to get the other chapters updated here tomorrow.

But I have A LOT of the story plotted out now so hopefully we can update more often! Weee!

#AO3 #fanfic #sonic #sonic fanfic #Disrepair House #Disrepair Error 422 #Chapter 5 #FNAF #crossover fic

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I just spent the last couple hours of a stream plotting the build-up to the climax and also breaking down Robotnik's habits regarding Really Stupid Ideas...

I have ideas

#mun speaks

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She's baaaaaaack~

And ready to terrorize a whole new world ;3 (and an old one)

#day reblog #because I am a creature of the night

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She's baaaaaaack~

And ready to terrorize a whole new world ;3 (and an old one)

#Disrepair House #Itara #Sun #FNAF #FNAF Sun #Zero #Megaman X #Security Breach #Sonic #omg look a comic #how long's it been???#mydrawing #mycomic #BUT DISREPAIR HOUSE IS BACK BAYBEEEE #NEW CHAPTERS HOPEFULLY SOON #I HAVE BEEN INSPIRED

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Guess Who's Still Alive Somehow!!!

It's Me

Disrepair_Error 422 has finally updated!

#Disrepair House #Sonic #fanfic #chapter update #multiverse #multifandom #extra story that wasn't supposed to happen but my brain got an idea

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DISREPAIR_ERROR 422: Chapter 2

The pizzeria wasn’t anything particularly out of the ordinary. An average sized building amongst many other average sized buildings that had slowly cropped back up across the city. Sturdy in ways only survivors of the Great Apocalypse - as many had come to call it - would build something so simple. It wasn’t notably rough or notably well-built. Nothing about its name or logo or even color scheme made it stand out in any particular way, not that there was much in the way of competition to stand out against. In all ways, the little pizza place was acceptable and wholly unremarkable. In a pre-apocalypse world, it would have managed but never made waves.

But this was the post-apocalypse world. It was, like many businesses, one of the only ones standing for quite some distance and even the smallest hint of what was once considered ‘normalcy’ was heavily sought-after and valued. So even this small, unremarkable pizzeria, with its subpar pizza and limited drink options and lack of arcade games… was incredibly busy and drawing in new attention constantly.

That was how RK discovered it in the first place, as it was a fair bit out of his way and he never would have come across it naturally. But because of its constant uptick in attention, word of mouth brought it to even the little cul-de-sac house at the end of the broken lane. And, of course, it was the one other resident on that lane that had brought it up to him, the one that brought a great deal of new, ‘interesting’ things to his attention. Someone he had long since lost hope of losing ‘interest’ in HIM after finally discovering he was, in fact, a robot. He wasn’t even sure why she insisted on moving back out to the broken lane in the first place, it was far from the city and the main form of transportation was lost.

But Lynda’s odd life decisions aside, the news about the pizzeria did interest him. In an odd sort of way it invoked a bit of nostalgia, even to him, to a time before the destruction. A trip to an arcade, with a grumpy fellow robot and a wide-eyed time traveler. It gave RK an idea.

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“….”

Disinterest and disbelief spread across the faces staring back at him once they arrived at their destination. Much like before, years ago, Itara and Metal seemed none-too-pleased with the decision he’d made and much like before, he only responded with satisfied amusement.

“You would.” Metal hissed, turning back towards the building, sizing it up.

“RK, why?” Itara sighed, though her attention flipped constantly back and forth between him and the building. Even as she turned to face him, her eyes kept drawing back to the entrance, never fully letting it out of her sight.

“It's the first one to pop up around here and I thought we needed to relax a little.”

Once Metal was done sizing it up, he turned back again, “There aren’t even games in this one. It's just a restaurant. What’s the point of coming?” Still, Itara’s attention couldn’t fully remove itself from the pizzeria and even Metal picked up on it after a moment of talking circles with RK. He waved the other bot’s nonsense away and turned his attention to the tiny time traveler, “What are you so focused on? There’s nothing in there.”

Itara’s eyes flit between the robots to the restaurant once more before slowly dragging her eyes to the robots and turning her back fully to the entrance to avoid looking at it again. “Nothing. I think.” The uncertainty in her voice only served to draw more attention from the robots.

“What is it, Itara?” RK questioned, crouching down to be eye-level with her.

“I don’t know, nothing, probably,” she explained, her eyes moving to the side before she shook her head and looked up at him, “There’s been a lot of weirdness with our timeline, in general, since I came back. A lot of… blips here and there. Inconsistencies. There’s one here but it's probably nothing.” She closed her eyes and let out a slow breath, opening them again and looking up to the bots who were staring down at her with concern, “Considering everything that happened over such a long period of time, it's not surprising that our timeline is still a little unstable. So long as nothing provokes it, it should straighten out with time.”

“What would be considered ‘provoking’ it, exactly?” Metal prodded, eyeing her rather pointedly.

Itara offered a small, sheepish grin in response, shrugging, “I promise to not.” He gave a small hum of acceptance and she continued, “and, outside of me or Solaris, directly, I don’t think anything else should be able to affect it. It should be fine.”

“I’ll take your word for it,” RK nodded, standing back up and motioning towards the entrance, “then let’s check this little place out, shall we?”

Metal was less sure but with nothing to add, he instead turned his attention to the pizzeria, itself, checking the time before raising an eyebrow at the other bot, “our inability to eat actual food aside, isn’t it a bit early for pizza?”

It was RK’s turn to give a sheepish grin as he shrugged, “Since this is the only pizzeria for miles, it gets busy. I don’t think any of us want to be here at peak hours so I thought we’d come at opening, beat the crowds. Consider it a one time treat for saving the world.”

“And here I thought the excessive brownies, which she has been able to eat quite a bit later than I remember you telling me before, were the ‘one time’ treat for saving the world,” Metal muttered, eyeing the red bot. Looking away, he continued, counting off his fingers, “The brownies, the late-night snacks, the brand new clothes, the-” The sudden impact on his arm, though it did no real damage, was enough to stop the list, though Metal was adequately satisfied that his point was put across and grinned back at the oddly silent warbot. “If I had any concept of this notion, which I do not, I would say you were spoiling her, Metal Knuckles.”

He decided to end his mockery there, for the sole reason of not wanting to really get punched, but the series of angry messages on his inner comms told him everything the other bot’s outer façade did not. Instead, he turned back towards the pizzeria, ‘sizing it up’ once more, and waved towards it, “In either case, we’ve already come all the way out here. May as well get the tiny child her morning pizza.” With that, he led the way to the entrance as a few people and cars began pulling into the almost diminutive parking lot. The thick foot and car tracks littering the dirt and grass around the building proved the limited space didn’t stop the crowds in any capacity. They would want to be out of there sooner rather than later.

#Disrepair House #Sonic #fanfic #RK #Metal Sonic #Itara #Disrepaired and Breached #Arc Four #Chapter 2 #Solaris #Mephiles #multiverse #oops this has been sitting in drafts for god knows how long lmao #also guess who's writing fanfic for NaNo again

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